Energy absorbed by dust from the far UV (FUV) where AGN SEDs peak has to be re-radiated by the dust. This issue has been addressed by [1]} who considered the overall SEDs of AGNs from hard X-rays to the far red and considered similar reddenings to what we find for NGC 5548. Their Figure 8 is particularly useful. It shows SEDs plotted on a linear \(\nu F_{\nu }\)  scale against \(\log \nu \) , a plot which has the virtue that areas under curves represent energy. From their comparison of the SEDs of AGNs with low reddening (their Class A) with the SEDs of AGNs with reddenings similar to NGC 5548 (their Class B), it can readily be appreciated that the energy lost in the UV in Class B objects compared with Class A objects is reradiated in the IR from 3 – 100 \(\) m. There is thus no energetics problem with having large reddenings of AGNs.
